Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 67 86
Rank change year-on-year -25 +19 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,034 1,873 2,406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 3.78% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 4.22% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,427 918 1,647
10th Percentile £46,049 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,563 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £94,694 £85,420
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.24% -5.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -24 1,779 £75,000 +3.45% 1,205
UK excluding London -35 1,105 £65,000 -7.14% 557
Work from Home -24 884 £65,000 -7.14% 620
London -14 790 £85,000 +3.03% 768
North of England -37 372 £70,000 - 160
South East +16 305 £65,000 -7.14% 162
North West -53 198 £75,000 +7.14% 87
South West -22 129 £57,500 -4.17% 66
Midlands -64 104 £67,500 +1.89% 63
North East +25 95 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire -12 79 £60,000 -16.66% 49
West Midlands -39 76 £80,000 +14.29% 43
Northern Ireland -20 62 £60,000 +20.00% 29
Wales -9 58 £70,000 +34.62% 16
East of England -34 45 £60,100 -3.84% 16
Scotland -58 32 £60,000 -23.87% 48
East Midlands -51 27 £64,000 +6.67% 20
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 38 (1.87%) Confluence
2 26 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 15 (0.74%) Apache
3 15 (0.74%) CMS
4 14 (0.69%) IIS
5 12 (0.59%) Camunda
6 9 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.39%) WordPress
8 7 (0.34%) JBoss
8 7 (0.34%) nginx
8 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.25%) Drupal
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.15%) DNN
12 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.15%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.29%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.098%) Shopify
6 1 (0.049%) Eikon
6 1 (0.049%) RMDS
6 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (51.52%) AWS
2 875 (43.02%) Azure
3 332 (16.32%) GCP
4 264 (12.98%) Serverless
5 247 (12.14%) GitHub
6 189 (9.29%) SaaS
7 176 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
8 136 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
9 120 (5.90%) Amazon S3
10 111 (5.46%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (5.01%) GitHub Copilot
12 101 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 92 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 81 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
16 69 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
17 67 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
18 63 (3.10%) Azure AKS
19 51 (2.51%) PaaS
20 48 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.70%) Broadband
2 26 (1.28%) Network Security
3 15 (0.74%) MQTT
4 13 (0.64%) DMARC
5 12 (0.59%) DNS
6 8 (0.39%) Internet
6 8 (0.39%) VPN
7 7 (0.34%) AMQP
7 7 (0.34%) Firewall
7 7 (0.34%) HTTP
7 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) DHCP
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
8 6 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.20%) LTE
11 3 (0.15%) Modbus
11 3 (0.15%) NAS
11 3 (0.15%) SAN
12 1 (0.049%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (15.04%) MongoDB
2 228 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (9.83%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 157 (7.72%) Elasticsearch
6 123 (6.05%) MySQL
7 114 (5.60%) SQL Server
8 93 (4.57%) Relational Database
9 66 (3.24%) Redis
10 51 (2.51%) DynamoDB
11 50 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.43%) Big Data
13 19 (0.93%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.64%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.59%) Db2
16 12 (0.59%) DTS
17 10 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 262 (12.88%) Git
2 191 (9.39%) GitLab
3 163 (8.01%) Jenkins
4 63 (3.10%) JUnit
5 61 (3.00%) JIRA
6 59 (2.90%) TeamCity
7 46 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 38 (1.87%) Mockito
9 36 (1.77%) Cypress.io
10 32 (1.57%) Claude Code
11 30 (1.47%) Maven
12 24 (1.18%) Selenium
13 22 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 19 (0.93%) CircleCI
15 17 (0.84%) SonarQube
16 15 (0.74%) Spock
17 14 (0.69%) Postman
18 13 (0.64%) JMeter
18 13 (0.64%) REST Assured
19 12 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 504 (24.78%) Finance
2 385 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 211 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 181 (8.90%) Banking
5 141 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (6.83%) Law
7 128 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
8 120 (5.90%) Retail
9 78 (3.83%) Legal
10 62 (3.05%) Financial Institution
11 54 (2.65%) Marketing
12 46 (2.26%) Back Office
13 30 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 29 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.38%) Legal Technology
16 22 (1.08%) Games
17 21 (1.03%) Advertising
18 19 (0.93%) Front Office
19 17 (0.84%) Telecoms
20 13 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 758 (37.27%) Developer
2 489 (24.04%) Senior
3 370 (18.19%) Software Engineer
4 327 (16.08%) Lead
5 280 (13.77%) Architect
6 205 (10.08%) .NET Developer
7 178 (8.75%) Senior Developer
8 162 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 150 (7.37%) Java Developer
10 138 (6.78%) Java Engineer
11 125 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 117 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
13 102 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
14 100 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (4.03%) Software Developer
16 74 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
17 72 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.44%) Lead Developer
19 57 (2.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 54 (2.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (26.89%) .NET
2 433 (21.29%) React
3 419 (20.60%) Node.js
4 341 (16.76%) Spring
5 312 (15.34%) Spring Boot
6 295 (14.50%) RESTful
7 278 (13.67%) REST
8 254 (12.49%) Kafka
9 239 (11.75%) ASP.NET
10 219 (10.77%) .NET Core
11 217 (10.67%) AngularJS
12 212 (10.42%) Vue
13 194 (9.54%) ASP.NET Core
14 116 (5.70%) Blazor
15 105 (5.16%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (4.82%) .NET Framework
17 94 (4.62%) HTML
18 89 (4.38%) CSS
19 80 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
20 73 (3.59%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 625 (30.73%) Cloud Native
2 355 (17.45%) Distributed Systems
3 141 (6.93%) Product Ownership
4 106 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
5 98 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
6 70 (3.44%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 43 (2.11%) AI Agents
8 43 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 40 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
10 36 (1.77%) Over-the-Top Content
10 36 (1.77%) Virtual Team
11 33 (1.62%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
14 24 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 23 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.13%) Management Information System
16 19 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.44%) Linux
2 48 (2.36%) Windows
3 21 (1.03%) CentOS
3 21 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (1.03%) Unix
4 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.25%) AIX
6 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.20%) Debian
6 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.15%) Android
8 2 (0.098%) VMS
9 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (52.56%) CI/CD
2 966 (47.49%) Agile
3 728 (35.79%) Software Engineering
4 721 (35.45%) DevOps
5 576 (28.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 493 (24.24%) Mentoring
7 436 (21.44%) Event-Driven
8 434 (21.34%) AI
9 429 (21.09%) Containerisation
10 413 (20.30%) Test Automation
11 407 (20.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 390 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 371 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
14 284 (13.96%) Scrum
15 276 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
16 275 (13.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 248 (12.19%) TDD
18 229 (11.26%) Clean Code
19 221 (10.87%) Architectural Patterns
20 215 (10.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 679 (33.38%) Java
2 564 (27.73%) C#
3 500 (24.58%) SQL
4 483 (23.75%) Python
5 457 (22.47%) JavaScript
6 368 (18.09%) TypeScript
7 113 (5.56%) Go
8 52 (2.56%) Ruby
9 45 (2.21%) C++
9 45 (2.21%) Scala
10 41 (2.02%) PHP
11 39 (1.92%) Bash
12 27 (1.33%) Bicep
13 26 (1.28%) PowerShell
14 23 (1.13%) Rust
15 20 (0.98%) C
16 18 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.88%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.64%) Groovy
18 12 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 280 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 188 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 182 (8.95%) Degree
4 83 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 72 (3.54%) AWS Certification
7 44 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.28%) CISSP
9 22 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.59%) CISM
13 10 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.49%) PhD
14 9 (0.44%) MBA
15 5 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (10.13%) QA
2 84 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (1.82%) GDPR
5 34 (1.67%) WCAG
6 20 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 19 (0.93%) NIST
7 19 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.84%) NCSC
9 15 (0.74%) GRC
10 10 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.44%) Data Quality
11 9 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.25%) PSD2
15 5 (0.25%) SEPA
16 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 582 (28.61%) Docker
2 31 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.25%) NDS
4 5 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.20%) Firmware
5 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.15%) KVM
7 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 618 (30.38%) Kubernetes
2 358 (17.60%) Terraform
3 111 (5.46%) Ansible
4 95 (4.67%) Grafana
5 56 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.23%) Argo
7 18 (0.88%) Puppet
7 18 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.84%) Kibana
9 13 (0.64%) Cilium
10 8 (0.39%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.25%) Podman
13 4 (0.20%) Packer
14 2 (0.098%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.098%) MIIS
14 2 (0.098%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.098%) Rancher
15 1 (0.049%) Istio
15 1 (0.049%) Nagios
Vendors
1 323 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.33%) Google
3 66 (3.24%) Oracle
4 36 (1.77%) OpenAI
4 36 (1.77%) Typelevel
5 35 (1.72%) Splunk
6 26 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 23 (1.13%) AppDynamics
7 23 (1.13%) IBM
8 21 (1.03%) Databricks
9 18 (0.88%) Okta
10 17 (0.84%) ForgeRock
11 14 (0.69%) OneLogin
12 13 (0.64%) Adobe
12 13 (0.64%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.59%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.59%) SAP
14 11 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.49%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.39%) OpenText